Three Kingdoms Lords: Starting by walking into the mouth of a giant python

Chapter 71 The Spirit Tower with Long Hair

Generally speaking, the [rank] and number of creatures attracted by a [Fugitive's Den] are inversely proportional.

[天品]一次1-2个，[地品]3-5个，[玄品]10余个。

[Xuanju] is not of high quality, yet a thousand of them arrive at once.

This time, there are one hundred living beings, which should be [Yellow Grade].

One hundred [yellow grade], not bad.

Li Yu was fairly satisfied.

The countdown still has 23 hours left. Li Yu looked away and looked at the [Random Territory Item].

use!

"[System]: Congratulations to the player for obtaining the territory item - 'Spirit Tower'."

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"Spirit Tower"

[Rank] Earth Grade

[Attributes] Martial Spirit +180, Public Order -20. Places the corpse of a monster in the tower, inciting its tribe to attack the tower for revenge. 1 time/day.

[Description] During the Tang Dynasty, a monstrous serpent named Bo Jie inhabited the Er River, causing great floods that inundated the city. The King of Meng issued a proclamation: "Whoever can destroy it will be rewarded with half of the government treasury, and his descendants will be exempt from corvée labor for generations." A man named Duan Chicheng among the people volunteered to kill the serpent, bound a blade, and entered the water. The serpent swallowed him, and both man and serpent died, and the floods ceased.

The king ordered the snake's belly to be cut open, and its bones, belonging to Chicheng, to be buried there. A pagoda was built on top of it, named "Lingta" (Spirit Pagoda). The snake's bones were ground into ash and smeared on the pagoda. Every year, a snake party would rise up and come to strip the ash from the pagoda.

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It turned out to be a "leveling spot within the territory".

Li Yu's eyes lit up. With this [tower], he wouldn't have to rush to the [leveling spot] every day to "compete for food" with other players.

Having found a suitable location north of [Immortal Abode], Li Yu had a thought and summoned the [Spirit Tower Item].

Boom!

A tall tower has emerged from the ground.

The tower is conical, brick-built, seven-story, octagonal, and thirty zhang tall. There is a staircase inside that spirals upwards.

Each floor has an arched doorway on all four sides, offering panoramic views of the magnificent [Xianlu] and the stunning seascape.

The base and body of the tower are completely blank, without any engravings, paintings, sculptures or other decorations.

With this [Spirit Tower] present, the [Martial Spirit] attribute of the [Territory] skyrockets to 270. Combined with his own 13 points of [Martial Arts], that's a 283% increase in [Martial Power] experience gain.

Nearly a threefold increase!

With this thought in mind, Li Yu turned the ox around and drove it to [Chenwangli] without entering. He then spurred the ox on and drove it to [Bat Cave].

Because it was getting late, there were no more players in front of the cave, and the Sky Courtyard Construction Corps not far away had also stopped work and left.

Li Yu summoned Ding Gu and Snake Princess, and took out several pine resin torches from the Fanghu and lit them.

Immediately, a swarm of bats, active at night, flew over.

Li Yu mounted the [Bamboo Rib Ox] and wreaked havoc.

After killing them, he ordered the bone horse to lure two more waves into the cave.

They found one or two hundred bat corpses.

Whether it was luck or because he had killed too many bats these past few days, the highest-ranking of all the bats was only a single [Three-Rank Green Bat]. Li Yu was not very satisfied, but fearing that making too much noise would provoke the [Thousand-Year-Old Bat King], he had no choice but to give up.

Then, he rushed to Tiger Hill. He did the same thing and got ten tiger corpses.

On the way back, I ransacked [Grass Valley] again and even got a [Grass Feather 1/3].

The man with the long beard and all the other players were stunned into silence.

Some players complained—

Good heavens! They worked themselves to the bone for days and didn't even get a scratch.

Did the dean find a treasure the moment he arrived?

The goddess of fate has her backside tilted all the way to Mount Kunlun, hasn't she?

With everything settled, Li Yu entered the pot and piled the [monster corpses] outside the tower.

He went to [Sky Courtyard] to inform Xiong Ba, and then rushed back to [Chen Wang Li].

At the Wang residence, the head of the Wang family was not present as usual, reportedly waiting for his "disobedient son" at the [Sky Courtyard].

Li Yu went to the entrance of the inner courtyard.

The little maid rushed out excitedly, but as soon as she got close, she wrinkled her little nose: "Young master, what's that smell on you? It's so awful!"

Li Yu had been fighting wildly in the cave and valley, and his body reeked of blood and sweat, giving him a rather unpleasant odor. Knowing he would be fighting again in the [Spirit Tower] later, he didn't take a bath.

Li Yu said, "I just finished leveling up and thought I'd come and take a look first."

After he finished speaking, the young lady from the Wang family, who was approaching gracefully but with hurried, small steps, slowed her pace and smiled radiantly at him.

Although the maid found the smell pungent, she couldn't bear to leave and kept talking to Li Yu.

The young lady listened quietly to the sound, and after a while, she went to fetch water and some food. When the maid offered to help, she wouldn't let her, and handed it to Li Yu herself.

Half an hour later, Li Yu took his leave, inviting the two women to play at the Sky Courtyard before he departed.

The young maid's eyes lit up, and she nodded vigorously. Wang Rong hesitated for a moment, then said that he still needed to ask his grandfather.

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When he got home, Xiong Ba was already waiting at the door.

The two entered the [pot], summoned [Ding Gu] and [Snake Princess], and carried the corpses up the tower one by one.

[Thirteen Ants] also leaped up, but unlike her usual playful self, she sat quietly on Li Yu's shoulder.

Li Yu glanced at her when he had a spare moment and found her drooling and dozing off.

She often did this after the "Six Days of Asceticism in the Valley of the Grasshoppers".

Everything is ready.

The [spirit tower] suddenly trembled, and patterns suddenly appeared on its body—bats, grasshoppers, locusts, and tigers.

The sounds of tiger roars and insect chirps echoed outside the territory of [Xianlu].

Upon hearing the chirping of insects, [Thirteen Ants] perked up and looked out of the tower with Li Yu.

Hundreds of tigers, thousands of bats, and millions of insects marched toward the [spirit tower].

It was a scene straight out of a "beast tide" or "insect tide" attacking the village.

The thirteen ants raised their heads and hissed, and hundreds of thousands of insects turned against them.

The tiger and bat hordes were thrown into chaos, and Li Yu, Xiong Ba, and [Snake Princess] seized the opportunity to charge into the enemy ranks.

Two hours later, everything was calm.

The body of the [spirit tower] has returned to a blank state.

The group cleaned up the battlefield.

Aside from raw materials like tiger bones and tiger hide, it's just a few ordinary scrolls, not particularly valuable.

In terms of experience, both Xiong Ba and [Snake Princess] gained a lot.

Li Yu also raised his [Martial Prowess] to level 62, firmly holding the top spot on the three lists.

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"Power Ranking"

1th Place: [Li Yu] Strength 62

2rd Place: [Victor Vladimir] Strength 53

3th Place: [Chu Tiankuo] Strength 52

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5th Place: [Yatsuki Mizutama] Strength 51

6st Place: [Lv Yi] Strength 51

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10th Place: [Bah Ah] Strength 36

Li Yu was a full nine ranks higher than the second-place [Viktor Vladimir]. [King of Chu] caught up, while [King of Donkeys], after losing his first place, seemed to have relaxed, and his ranking dropped significantly.

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Intelligence Ranking

1st Place: [Li Yu] Intelligence 49

2nd Place: [Zhang Wei] Intelligence 48

3rd Place: [Watanabe Monk] Intelligence 47

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7st Place: [I. Ngon Nedan] Intelligence 45

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In terms of acquiring experience in "Intelligence", Li Yu cannot compare with those experts and professors who have thoroughly understood various classics, but he has a "Literary Style" of +180 from [Immortal Abode] and a "Literary Affairs" of +21 from himself.

The 2-fold increase ensured his top position on the leaderboard.

After finishing everything, Xiong Ba took his leave.

Li Yu took [Snake Princess] to the sea to clean up, while [Ding Gu] wanted to keep watch, but Li Yu sent him to [Canghai Island] to practice climbing.

[Thirteen Ants] didn't come either; she took Horse-faced Little Green-tailed to bathe in [Aganipe Spring].

Nothing was said that night; it was like a dream of spring and autumn.

The next day, Li Yu did not go out; he buried himself in his books in the [Fanghu].

The "Intelligence Ranking Quest - Climb to the Top" has been activated, and he won't feel at ease unless he pulls a few levels further ahead of the second-place player.

After a day of hard study, my [intelligence] score finally reached 50.

At this point, he had fulfilled all the requirements of the [place of challenge].

into the night.

"Countdown: 00:00:00".

"[System]: One hundred beings have descended upon [Immortal Abode]. Do you wish to accept them as residents?"

"yes!"

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[Ethnicity] Long-haired nation

[Rank] Yellow

[Description] "The Long-haired Country. The country is located north of Xuangu, in the middle of the sea. The people are short, with long hair on their faces and bodies, and they wear no clothes, resembling apes. A woman is the queen. They have cities, farm, and live in caves. They were captured in the fourth year of the Yongjia era of the Jin Dynasty, but no one could understand their language." — "Records of Foreign Lands"

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A white-haired man and a group of black-haired demons appeared beside the [Immortal Abode Stele].

An indescribable stench overflowed, pouring into every part of [Immortal Abode].

The aroma of the fruit wine in the pot was diluted considerably.

Damn it!

It was these idiots!

Li Yu leaped to his feet.

He waved his hand and drove the ninety-nine black ghosts out of the [square pot].

"Come on! Come with me!"

Li Yu then took out a pot, speaking and gesturing, kicking and shoving, driving the group of black men toward the "village protection river".

The people of the [Long-haired Country] were furious, shouting "Roar! Roar! Roar!" and "Hairy! Hairy!"

Its long hair, covered in knots and grime, hadn't been washed for who knows how many years, and it was flying around as it shook itself.

Li Yu's eyes stung from the smell.

He grabbed the few hairiest people from the [Long-haired Country] and kicked them repeatedly, until one of them spat out blood.

Immediately, all the black men became obedient.

Amidst the barking of dogs, cursing from residents, and sounds of vomiting, I walked outside.

A night watchman came to investigate. As soon as he saw Li Yu, he called out "Dean," but involuntarily covered his mouth and nose, feeling nauseous. However, his eyes rolled back, and he fainted.

Li Yu ignored him and continued to drive the ninety-nine black men toward the river.

Upon reaching the riverbank, under his angry rebuke, the black men reluctantly lay down by the water's edge, splashing water on their heads and bodies intermittently.

Li Yu simply kicked one of the men into the river, took out a leather glove from the [Fanghu] and put it on. He then grabbed the hairy feet of the [Long-haired Country] man and pushed him forward and pulled him back repeatedly.

He was only allowed to come out of the water after he had washed himself clean.

They were busy working until the middle of the night.

The next day, rumors were circulating in the Sky Academy that Dean Li was staying up late at night, washing a mop in the river.

(End of this chapter)